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Red-eyed Treefrogs Laying Eggs on a Tree Above a Tropical Pond

Caption: Eggs mature on leaves where they face predation from snakes, wasps. Hatching tadpoles fall into ponds where fish, water bugs wait to gobble them up.

Credit: Karen Warkentin, Boston University and STRI

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